Horror Hospital

1973

Action / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi

10
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 41% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 1814 1.8K

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Plot summary

Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved, ex-Nazi scientist Dr. Storm. Along the way, Jason meets Judy, also on her way to Brittlehouse Manor to visit her aunt, who married Dr. Storm some years ago. Once they arrive, the pair realise rather quickly that something is wrong, probably because the other guests have had their brains surgically removed, or all the blood pouring from the sink, or possibly just because the creepy midget keeps telling them to brush their teeth.


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Michael Gough as Dr. Christian Storm
Robin Askwith as Jason Jones
720p.BLU
701.10 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
24.000 fps
1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by parry_na 7 / 10

Rarely a dull moment!

I'll never stop being amazed how the silky sandpaper-voiced Michael Gough threw away the role of Holmwood in Hammer's classic 'Dracula (1957)' and yet puts so much more effort into his role as Doctor Storm in this cheerful, meandering affair. Gough shares top billing with 70s icon Robin Askwith, here playing Jason Jones. He plays a songwriter who gets into a fight with a local band when he accuses them of stealing his latest masterpiece, and then meets an attractive girl Judy (Vanessa Shaw) on a train who tells him her entire life-story - which is coincidentally the back-story to 'Horror Hospital'. His opening line to this rather sweet young lass? "Relax, I'm not gonna rape you." Dennis Price also shows up as a camp travel agent called Pollock, head of 'Hairy Holidays'. Skip Martin, who gave such life to Michael the Dwarf in 'Vampire Circus' a couple of years earlier, is shifty as Storm's assistant Frederick. The rest of the cast are non-actors, who nevertheless enter into the spirit of things wholeheartedly.

Director Anthony Balch made only a handful of films before his untimely death at the age of 42, and this was probably his slickest. Whilst that isn't saying a great deal, this is fairly enjoyable and certainly eventful. The finished production has a sense of chaos about it, with little attention paid to a coherent story-line, and none whatsoever to characterization (other than Jones' constant desire to have his way with naïve but provocative Judy - to be fair to him, he softens as the film goes on). There's lots going on, however, and regarding the more sinister characters, 'the ham', as they say, 'is thickly sliced.'

Taps gushing blood instead of water, pasty-faced young zombies, beheadings, and a cracking twist at the end - there's rarely a dull moment. My score is a cheerful 7 out of 10.

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 5 / 10

Garbled mess entertains royally.

It's one of those creaky British horrors that always show up on the BBC in the early hours of the morning. The reason for this is that the only ones watching are the drunks staggering in from the pub, or the insomniacs interested in a thrill to pass the time away with. The former are the better off because this is a film where not being of sober mind can only aid the viewing.

It's bonkers in plotting, Robin Askwith (just prior to his shift into a sex comedy franchise) is a stressed out singer with a pop group. He decides to go for some R&R at a country retreat. He hooks up with Vanessa Shaw on the train journey in, and once they arrive at the retreat they find it's a bizarro world inhabited by mute bikers, lobotomised robots, a malignant dwarf and a mad doctor (Michael Gough) in a wheelchair!

That's pretty much it, not much makes sense, there's a little sexy nudity, a whole host of sequences where the zombies do nothing of interest, some scenes of the dwarf (Skip Martin) mixing potions and puddings, and some cool fake fights between Askwith and chums and the crash helmet bikers. It plods along gleefully to the finale's big reveal and chase/escape sequence, to round it off as car crash cinema. Splendidly bad and joyful in subtexts. 5/10

Reviewed by Coventry 7 / 10

Deliciously grotesque 70's horror flick!

Elderly horror films starring Michael Gough as a dangerously insane butcher are always great fun, since the gore is so over-the-top and the story lines are so hilariously inept. Just look at "Horrors of the Black Museum" or "Satan's Slave", for example! It simply seems that casting Michael Gough inevitably results in a horror film that can't possibly be taken serious. "Horror Hospital" lifts up this theory to an even higher level of grotesquerie, as the plot is indescribably absurd, Gough's character is more demented than ever and the script is just filled with goofs, stupidities and illogicalness! Michael Gough is Doctor Christian Storm, supposedly a brilliant disciple of Pavlov once, but now a crippled lunatic who enjoys swooping off people's heads with his Rolls Royce (now there's one killing method you have to see in order to believe!). Although he's not very good at it, Storm attempts to control and master human feelings of sexuality so he performs brain-operations on youngsters and keeps their zombified leftovers locked away in his rural castle. You can't really be too harsh on this film, since writer/directed Antony Balch clearly opted for a light-headed and comical tone. Cliché after cliché is unscrupulously presented while the violence (although plenty of it) is never shocking or disturbing. Not once during the whole film I really understood what exactly Storm is trying to achieve with his operations (my best guess is that he wants to copulate with the female patients after disfiguring their brains), but I gladly witnessed how he cut open their heads and served the brains on a plate for them to see! The castle (referred to in the movie as a "health-farm") is a great horror setting and there are a couple of very ingenious gimmicks. The most fun definitely is to track down all the things in "Horror Hospital" that don't make the slightest bit of sense: the machete attached to the car can't possibly reach someone's head (unless they were all midgets like Skip Martin) and Storm's biker-henchmen just seem to keep on coming, like they're appearing out of nowhere. This movie is one of those exquisite British horror oddities released during the early 70's; too silly to be produced by Hammer but way too much fun to forget about them entirely. Watch it when you can!

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